How to Check If Your League of Legends Account Is Banned or Suspended
To check LoL ban status, log in to the account through the Riot Client: a suspended or permanently banned account shows a penalty notice with the reason and, for temporary suspensions, the end date. Smaller penalties (chat restrictions, ranked restrictions, low priority queue) appear as notices in the League client instead. No outside website can reliably check a LoL ban for you.
How do I check if my LoL account is banned?
Try to log in. That is the only check that is always right, because the ban lives on Riot’s side and the login screen is where Riot tells you about it. Here is what each result means:
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Normal login, no notice | No active ban or suspension |
| A notice with a reason and an end date | Temporary suspension; you can play again after that date |
| A notice saying the account is permanently banned | Permanent ban; the account cannot be played |
| Login works, but a penalty pop-up appears in the League client | A smaller restriction (chat, ranked, queue) |
| “Wrong username or password” on a login you are sure of | Not a ban; usually a changed password or a different account |
Riot also sends penalty notices to the email on the account, which is why a verified email you actually read matters. If the account has no verified email, the client notice is all you get. Check the spam folder too for those emails.
Ban, suspension or restriction: what is the difference?
They are different steps of Riot’s penalty system, and only the last two block you from playing.
- Chat restriction. You can play, but your chat is limited or removed for a number of games.
- Ranked restriction. You must play a set number of normal games before ranked opens again.
- Low priority queue. Usually for leaving games; you wait in a timer before each queue for a few games.
- Temporary suspension. You cannot log in to play until the end date (14-day suspensions are a common step for repeated toxicity).
- Permanent ban. The account is closed for good.
For behaviour penalties Riot generally escalates step by step, so a first offence rarely jumps straight to a permanent ban. Cheating, scripting and botting are the exception: those can go straight to a permanent ban, and since 2024 Riot Vanguard on Windows has made that kind of detection much stricter. Want the full picture of leaver penalties? Our guide to the LoL low priority queue covers each tier.
Why do LoL accounts get banned?
The login notice names the reason. The common ones fall into a few groups:
- Behaviour: harassment, hate speech, threats, intentional feeding or griefing.
- Leaving games again and again, which climbs from queue timers to suspensions.
- Third-party software: scripts, cheats, and anything that injects into the game.
- Botting, including accounts leveled by bots.
- Account sharing, buying, selling or boosting, which Riot’s Terms do not allow.
- Offensive names, now usually handled by forcing a Riot ID change.
Honestly, the third and fourth groups are the ones that surprise people. A player who never touches chat can still lose an account to a skin changer or to a bot-leveled account bought cheaply from an unknown seller.
How to check a LoL ban on an account you bought or were given
Same method, plus a little extra care. Log in yourself, from your own computer, before you play a single game, and look for any notice. Then check three more things:
- The account’s email. If it is verified to someone else, the account can be recovered by them later, banned or not.
- The honor level and any active restrictions shown in the League client.
- Whether ranked is available, if you were promised a ranked-ready account.
A few signs point to a bot-leveled account that Riot might ban later: a match history made almost entirely of co-op vs AI games, very regular play times, or a level 30 reached in an unusually short span. None of these prove anything alone. Together they are a reason to be careful.
Our own accounts make this simpler, for one specific reason. We hand-level every LoL account in-house in normal games, without bots, and check it before handover; the unverified email lets you attach your own. If Riot bans one for “Purchase of an account” or third-party leveling within 30 days, our warranty covers a replacement under the conditions listed there.
Can websites check a LoL ban?
Not reliably, and no site can check LoL ban status better than the login screen. Stats sites like op.gg or League of Graphs show match history and rank, and an account with no games for weeks might carry a ban, or might belong to someone on holiday. Funny enough, the most common “ban checker” result is just “last game: 40 days ago”, which proves nothing.
Sites that ask for your username and password to “check ban status” are worse than useless. They are phishing pages. Riot never needs a third-party site to tell you about your own account.
Can you appeal a LoL ban?
Yes, through Riot Support. Open a ticket in the category for penalties and bans, explain why you think the penalty is wrong, and include whatever the login notice said. Riot replies by email.
The catch is that appeals rarely change behaviour or cheating penalties. Riot reviews the evidence it already has, such as chat logs or detection data. Appeals have the best chance when the account was compromised (someone else played on it) or when the penalty clearly does not match what happened. Be specific. Support reads a calm, factual ticket more carefully than an angry one (an angry ticket helps nobody, least of all you).
What if your account was hacked and then banned?
Then recovery comes first, and the ban second. Riot often bans a hacked account for what the intruder did with it: scripting, botting, or flaming in your name. Riot can only look at that properly once you prove the account is yours.
- Recover access through Riot Support’s account recovery, using the email, purchase history or other details you can prove.
- Change the password and secure the email, so the intruder cannot come back.
- Open a ticket about the penalty and say clearly that the account was compromised, with the dates you lost access if you know them.
Why does this order matter? Because a penalty appeal from someone who cannot log in to the account looks exactly like an appeal from the person who got it banned. Our guide to account recovery in League of Legends walks through the recovery side in detail, including what to do when the email itself was changed.
What happens to a banned account’s skins and RP?
A permanently banned account keeps nothing you can use. Champions, skins and RP stay on the closed account, and Riot does not refund purchases on accounts banned for breaking the rules. A temporary suspension, on the other hand, keeps everything; when the suspension ends, the account is exactly as you left it.
That is the real cost of risky shortcuts. To be fair, most players never see more than a chat restriction. But the ones who lose an account usually lose years of purchases with it, which is why a skin changer or a cheap bot account is a bad trade.
How to avoid a LoL ban
Most of this is common sense, and some of it is less obvious:
- Mute instead of arguing. The mute button prevents more penalties than any setting.
- Do not leave games. If your connection is unstable, fix it before ranked; our LoL ping test helps find the problem.
- Run nothing that modifies the game, including skin changers. Our page on the LoL skin mod risk explains why.
- Do not share your login. Account sharing is against the rules, and a friend’s behaviour lands on your account.
- Secure the account with your own verified email and a unique password, so nobody else can get you banned.
Put simply: if you ever need to check LoL ban status, log in and read what Riot tells you. Everything else is guesswork. A real Riot notice names the reason and, for a suspension, the end date; a message with neither is worth treating as phishing.
FAQ
How do I check if my League account is banned?
Log in through the Riot Client. A suspended or banned account shows a notice with the reason, and temporary suspensions show the end date.
How long is a LoL suspension?
It depends on the offence. Temporary suspensions have a fixed end date shown on login; 14-day suspensions are a common step for repeated behaviour problems.
Can I check a LoL ban on a website?
Not reliably. Stats sites only show match history. Sites that ask for your login to check a ban are phishing.
Will I get my skins back after a LoL ban?
Not after a permanent ban. A temporary suspension keeps all champions, skins and RP on the account.
Can you appeal a League of Legends ban?
Yes. Open a ticket with Riot Support in the penalties and bans category and explain why the penalty is wrong. Appeals succeed most often for compromised accounts.
How do I check LoL ban status on a bought account?
Log in yourself before playing and look for a penalty notice. Also check the account’s email, any active restrictions and the match history, since bot-leveled accounts are often hit by ban waves later.
What is the difference between a ban and a restriction in LoL?
A ban or suspension blocks you from playing. A restriction, such as a chat or ranked restriction, lets you play with limits for a number of games.
